The World Association of Newspapers on Wednesday honored the
jailed Iranian journalist, Ahmad Zaid-Abadi with its Golden Pen of Freedom
Award in the German city of Hamburg. Zaid-Abadi, right, was sentenced in 2009 to six
years in prison, five years of internal exile, and a lifetime ban on working as
a journalist. He is behind bars in Tehran's Evin Prison where, he told Xavier
Vidal-Folch, president of World Editor's Forum, "the desperation that jailers
create is such that you are convinced it's the end of the world."